CAMILLE BARBAGALLO is a feminist activist and researcher. Her research, situated within Marxist feminist theory, gender, and black studies, explores how the reproduction of labour-power is valued, what it costs, and who pays the bill. She is the coeditor of The Commoner no. 15, Care Work and the Commons, with Silvia Federici. Before migrating to London in 2005, she lived and worked in Australia and was active in labour struggles, the national student movements, and in radical social movements that focused on ending the mandatory detention of asylum seekers and campaigns to close the refugee camps.

PG MACIOTI is a queer, feminist interdisciplinary researcher and community organiser with over twenty years of experience in social movements and ten as an international scholar on migration, language, gender, sexuality and public health. PG worked for, co-founded and led a number of community and academic research projects in Italy, UK, Germany, Spain, Australia and France. She is currently program coordinator at Medecins du Monde (Doctors of the World) France and volunteer coordinator at Common Languages, a global language justice organisation providing interpreting services to climate justice and grassroots movements. PG is fluent in five European languages and part of her academic research and community engagement focus on language teaching and interpreting as tools for transformative social and climate justice.

NICHOLAS BEURET is climate and business management scholar who has a research focus on the climate transition and maximising community engagement. Nicholas is lecturer at Essex Business School where he teaches innovation and sustainability and he is currently writing a book, The Climate Squeeze (Verso, 2025). He has taught at universities in the United States and United Kingdom and is a coordinator of In:Commons, a radial pedagogy project that organises residential projects. His work has been published in Environment and Planning E, Nature and Space, Antipode, South Atlantic Quarterly, Science as Culture and numerous non-academic platforms. Before joining the academy, Nicholas was a campaigner for Friends of the Earth and also launched This Is Not Art Festival in Australia in the 1990s.

JEAN-PHILIPPE DUCHARNE is an architect and analogue music expert who has worked in Australia, French Polynesia and France. JP designs sustainable, inclusive living spaces for communities with diverse needs, with a commitment to creating environments that foster connection and positive social impact. JP reimagined communal living for older individuals of diverse backgrounds and sexualities, people with disabilities, including Alzheimer’s patients, and children. His projects prioritise accessibility, safety, sustainability and comfort by integrating features tailored to the unique motility and cultural requirements of each population. Central to JP’s design philosophy is his commitment to sustainability and environmental stewardship. He integrates cutting-edge green technologies, renewable energy sources, and eco-friendly materials to create spaces that are not only functional and beautiful but also environmentally conscious and respectful. In addition to his architectural work, JP has a passion for analogue music and its impact on the environment and society. Between 2016 and 2022, JP curated and hosted monthly communal listening events, known as “Classic Albums Sundays,” in Sydney, bringing together diverse communities to listen to records and discuss artistic and socially relevant themes around the transformative power of music. In his spare time, JP DJed and co-organised inclusive dance events in the Sydney queer community. As a trailblazer in the fields of inclusive design, sustainability, and community engagement through music, JP strives to inspire others to embrace a holistic approach to creating spaces that not only cater to physical needs but also nourish the mind and soul and spark transformative change.

JANNA GRAHAM is Senior Lecturer in Visual Cultures and Programme Leader of the BA in Curating at Goldsmiths University in London. Her work examines the aural, visual and micro-political dimensions of urban dispossession and resistance, and studies how legacies of colonial administration underpin neoliberal subjectivities, institutions and modes of publicity. As a curator associated with the ‘educational turn in art’ she has developed projects at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Whitechapel Gallery, Serpentine Galleries, the New Museum, and Documenta. Janna is a member of the sound and political art collective Ultra-red. She is a consultant evaluator for the Wellcome Collection Access Diversity and Inclusion Programme and also a consultant researcher on anti-ableism and anti-racism and is currently a consultant for the development of Deptford People’s Heritage Museum.

LUCIE LOY is a multi-disciplinary artist, whose work spans visual art, curating, research, writing, publishing, and relational, community-based projects. Through her work with artist-run projects locally and internationally, Lucie has explored notions of the ‘artist-led’, platforming the importance of art and artists critically and creatively addressing global and social struggles. Working with the aesthetics of hope, resistance and imagination, as well as through policy advocacy, activism and frustrating bureaucratic frameworks, Lucie’s practice and work seeks to explore the intersection of art, political ecology, social and environmental justice and postcolonial globalisation. Lucie’s work has been exhibited across Australia at galleries including at the Australian Centre for Contemporary (2015), Metro Arts (2013), Project Space / Spare Room (2018) and c3 Contemporary Art Space (2019). Lucie has completed residencies at institutions such as the Judith Wright Centre (2010), DESA (Indonesia) (2023) and the Centre for Contemporary Photography (2023) and has contributed to publications, most recently ‘Permanent Recession: A Handbook on Art, Labour and Circumstance’ (Onomatopee, Eindhoven, 2019). From 2014-2020 Lucie co-directed Blindside. She is currently the Director of Seventh Gallery, an artist-run platform in Australia.